In the largest global study of the Internet of Things in consumers’ homes, researchers from Avast and Stanford University have shown a surprising emergence of IoT devices in consumer homes and shed light on troubling number of devices that continue to …
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become the world’s gold standard for user privacy and breach disclosure regulation. It affects any business around the world that processes or stores the personal data of individuals re…
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become the world’s gold standard for user privacy and breach disclosure regulation. It affects any business around the world that processes or stores the personal data of individuals re…
A seven-year mystery surrounding the unlocking of over 2 million AT&T phones has culminated in the arrest and trial of 34-year-old Muhammad Fahd. Wired reported that Fahd stands accused of bribing AT&T employees to unlock phones – an illeg…
Creating malware that is capable of making money takes little to no ability to write original computer code, recent research by Avast has shown. All that’s needed is the ability to bundle existing tools together using publicly available snippets of cod…
Avast researchers announced this week that the company has protected more than 253,000 users from Clipsa, a password stealer that steals administrator credentials from unsecured WordPress websites.
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Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are two sprawling fields. They overlap in a fascinating area that will draw top experts to Prague in October for the conference CyberSec & AI, which is sponsored by Avast and the Czech Technical University….
Researchers have identified a new family of ransomware that attacks Android devices, locking up files and demanding payment in exchange for a decryption key, ZDNet reported this week. The new malware is called Android/Filecoder.C, and it is spread thro…
Researchers have identified a new family of ransomware that attacks Android devices, locking up files and demanding payment in exchange for a decryption key, ZDNet reported this week. The new malware is called Android/Filecoder.C, and it is spread thro…